I live in Reykjavik, Iceland. Chess is my way to relax after work, along with jogging and classical music. I'm an average club player, but inactive since I turned into a workaholic.

I have collected chess computers and softwares, not intentially but this has somehow piled up. In recent years I mostly play correspondent games, I'm too slow for speed games but play them anyway every now and then on the Net to get some adrenalin. I've played in tournaments and simuls and hope to have time for it again later, it's a sheer joy just to be part of such events in flesh and blood.

Here is a fun game against my venerable Galileo full size Saitek table top chesscomputer with Analyst Module, on level F8 (infinite time). I like those games of mine when I can stick to some plan rather than just playing adequate moves.

Halldor: Very interesting maneuver of the heavy pieces on the eighth rank. I got 39 Qxf8 but only thought of 40 Re8? as many. It is vital that the second rook can go to the eighth rank protected by the pawn on f7.

Halldor: The Black King is in critical position, nearly stalemate, so I looked for a mate, and after few minutes I found 31 h5+ Kxh5 and 32 Rg7, which seems to be almost mate. Now White can mate with either g4 or Rf5, so Black has to play 32… Ne3. But now the knight seems to be overworked, ...